A game of tired players
by cBd210516 on 2010-05-26Rogers Centre - TorontoI'm a HUGE Italian soccer fan and follow the Azzurri, Seria A and B religiously. Coming into this event I knew what to expect, a game with no real intensity and a bunch of tired players coming off a long season jogging around the pitch and making a run here and there. I loved the experience because FINALLY some Italian soccer came back to Toronto but the game wasn't the greatest. The problem with this match was that it was a friendly right after the Serie A season and the second problem was that it was a friendly. The problem with friendlies between two teams in the same league right after the season is that neither team cares about the actual game, there was nothing to play for other than to test out young players that just graduated from each Club's youth system but we did get to see Del Piero, Grosso, and Jovetic play which was fantastic to see. If they want to schedule a friendly between two European teams then make it a game between two teams from different leagues, that tends to give players some sort of intensity as they are not only representing their club, but their league as well! If people want to see a game between two teams from the same European league then create some sort of little cup tournament between 3 or 4 teams or make it just a cup tie like Toronto FC's Carlsberg Cup for example, though the cup is meaningless it still adds some sort of intensity and finally schedule these friendlies in August after the players have had some time off! They would be rusty no doubt about it but at the same time they would actually want to play in August to prove their worth to their Clubs for the upcoming season. Overall a rather bland game but it had its moments with Jovetic scoring an incredible goal and hitting some goalposts.